Jade @jade.packet.science they/she
PhD Student @cs.umass.edu
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies && Internet Censorship
Website: https://packet.science
Opinions expressed here do not reflect anyone but myself (and I change my mind often...)
DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social A new DC hacker conference: Bringing together builders, breakers, and fixers to do cool shit.
Feb. 6-7, 2027
districtcon.org
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@cryptax.bsky.social @cryptax.bsky.social Android malware analysis. Ph0wn CTF founder. IoT hacking. Frequent speaker at Virus Bulletin, Insomnihack etc. Based in France.
Currently testing Bluesky. Otherwise on Mastodon.social.
⚡P.W. Circuits Ltd⚡ @pwcircuits.bsky.social From our factory in Leicestershire (UK), we manufacture, assemble and design Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs).
We manufacture a diverse product range from flex-rigids to a simple PTH. From a fast turnaround prototype service to holding batch quantities
Tamir Bahar @tmr232.bsky.social I am on https://bsky.app/profile/tamir.dev
Keeping this account to avoid fakes.
LiveOverflow 🔴 @liveoverflow.bsky.social wannabe hacker... he/him
🌱 grow your hacking skills https://hextree.io
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social Hacker & CEO @SocialProofSec security awareness/social engineering training, videos, talks | 3X @DEFCON🥈 | Ex Chair @WISPorg | Ex @CISAgov Technical Advisory Council under Director Jen Easterly
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social Internet hacker
Alex Ionescu @ionescu.bsky.social Windows Internals Author, Developer, Reverse Engineer, Security Researcher, Speaker, Trainer, and most recently Nation State Hacker.
Core OS Platform Developer at Apple, Hyper-V Vendor at Microsoft, Chief Architect at CrowdStrike and now Director at CSE.
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social
Łukasz @lukasz.bsky.social Breaking bad UTF-8 implementations since 1991. I secure cybers and run trails. If I’m posting, I’m hopefully not on a trail. Views own. He/him
Joe FitzPatrick @securelyfitz.bsky.social Trainer and Researcher, SecuringHardware.com
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social Autonomous Carbon Based LLM with 42 years of tuning on Information Attack and Defense.
Host of CanSecWest, and PacSec.
Security audits, code, IR, LLM, red team consulting.
Specialize in Firmware, and RF.
VA7MOV
Grant H @digitalcold.bsky.social Android and baseband vulnerability researcher. Computer engineering PhD. 🇺🇸 (Washington, DC) || https://hernan.de/z
Colin O'Flynn @oflynn.com Colin is a huge nerd. Hardware hacking, open-source hardware, electronics design, academic stuff, dog stuff in some order. Assistant Prof @ Dalhousie Uni, advisor/co-founder NewAE Technology Inc.
Rob Joyce @rgblights.bsky.social Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social
Lennert @lennert.bsky.social
NewAE Technology Inc @newae.com NewAE Technology is the designer of the ChipWhisperer open-source embedded security analysis platform.
Ange @angealbertini.bsky.social Reverse engineer, file formats expert.
Corkami, CPS2Shock, PoC||GTFO, Sha1tered, Magika...
Security engineer @ Google. He/him.
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Great Scott Gadgets @greatscottgadgets.bsky.social Makers of HackRF One, Cynthion, YARD Stick One, and more. We design open source tools for innovative people.
stacksmashing @stacksmashing.bsky.social Security researcher with a focus on hardware & firmware. I occasionally publish stuff on YouTube. Co-founder of
hextree.io. Contact: contact@stacksmashing.net
Joe Grand @joegrand.bsky.social Hardware hacker, computer engineer, former L0pht member and juvenile delinquent, sometimes known as Kingpin. https://joegrand.com
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
@jlcpcb.bsky.social @jlcpcb.bsky.social
DJ Ir0ngruve @dj-ir0ngruve.bsky.social Music makes you lose control.
Follow at your own risk.
I’ve found that the people that uptight people hate are usually the best people.
Sex work is still work and sex workers deserve respect.
airplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com He/him. Professional disaster enthusiast, barely a pilot, RF enjoyer.
Perri Adams @perrib.us Fmr DARPA Program Manager | Fmrly Organizing DEF CON CTF with Nautilus | RPISEC Alumna | Personal account, opinions my own, RT ≠ endorsement
Natalie Silvanovich @natashenka.bsky.social Google Project Zero
Heidishmoo @heidishmoo.bsky.social Mom, Wife, Friend
Loves 🚴♀️ and🚶♀️, but not 🏃♂️.
Also known for liking 🥃 and 🍫 and 🥓.
Believes that centaurs wear 🪖s.
@gdead.bsky.social @gdead.bsky.social Founder (yikes!), supports @heidishmoo each year as she wrangles @shmoocon, totally done with that other site
ShmooCon @shmoocon.bsky.social Jan 10-12, 2025
Washington, D.C.
Less 🫎 Than Ever
This account is mostly used to push information. Got questions? Email us at info @ shmoocon.org.
LP @lastperson.bsky.social Hacking, Tractor Hacking, lightweight artist, printer of Tees, Lonely Hackers Club, SecTribe
Binary Ninja @binaryninja.bsky.social Backup account for @binary.ninja
RE//verse @re-verse.io https://re-verse.io/ reverse engineering conference
Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Wassenaar intangible Ⓐ
Tim Blazytko @mrphrazer.bsky.social Binary Security Researcher & Trainer
Website: https://synthesis.to
buherator @buherator.bsky.social "I'm interested in all kinds of astronomy."
https://scrapco.de
Mostly cross-posting from Fediverse: @buherator@infosec.place
Christian Blichmann 🇺🇦 (also on Mastodon) @admvonschneider.bsky.social Everything is always broken. Googler by day. #BinDiff maintainer. My tweets, my opinion.
During my lifetime, CO2 increased by 67.84ppm (so far).
http://pronoun.is/he
Raphaela Mettig @rmettig.com Researcher and PhD student. Personal account.
rmettig.com/about- B bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com run by @oracularhades.com | @ or DM this account with suggestions
Ryan Stortz @withzombies.bsky.social Memory Corruption, iOS, Swift, LLVM, CTF, old man stuff
NYC
Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster Computer necromancer/vivisectionist, spoiler of grain, electromagnetic wave wrangler. Has strong opinions, weakly held. Pronouns (he/him) in bio, always antifascist.
crimesanta aka sm0kem @crimesanta.bsky.social staff at Blue Team Village & BsidesCharm
cyber risk consultant / former CISO
Jurph: you're soaking in it @jurph.bsky.social Veteran of dial up BBS, mIRC, AOL federated messaging, and Google Reader. When all this is gone I will remain. The most important thing is helping people.
aurelsec @aurelsec.bsky.social Hackademic at S3@eurecom
Sean Lyngaas @snlyngaas.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter, CNN. Signal +1-202-355-8471 or SNLyng.11. sean[dot]lyngaas@cnn[dot]com|slyngaas@proton[dot]me
Hexadecim8 @hexadecim8.com Author | spooky trans athlete | Linux behavioral threat researcher | never hacked nobody
https://hexadecim8.com
Solder Party @solder.party We design easy to use products that help you develop your projects.
All our products are open source HW and SW!
Find our links at https://links.solder.party/
Jason Coon @evilgeniuslabs.org Purveyor of finely hand-crafted pixels. ꩜
https://evilgeniuslabs.org
Father, husband, maker. He/Him
Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social Paged Out! is a free magazine about programming, hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. Always accepting submissions of one-page articles.
DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com Tech Dysangelist
cDc/hack.xxx/Veilid
Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com
Merch at: @hack.xxx
he/him/"hey buddy"
Robert Graham @erratarob.bsky.social @erratarob on the hellscape site
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Oleg Kutkov 🇺🇦 @olegkutkov.bsky.social Electronics, Software, Radio, Embedded.
Starlink hacking and fixing.
Space and Astronomy.
plonk @plonk.bsky.social Berlin. Does things with computers and phones.
Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social Software Security @ MPI for Security and Privacy
PhD @NUS, Dipl.-Inf. @TUDresden
Research Group: http://mpi-softsec.github.io
The one and only @infosystir.bsky.social
Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
Natalie @nataliethenerd.com Self taught maker just trying to make and learn more.
LEDs and Game Boys.
and a bit of gaming ofc
she/her
https://links.nataliethenerd.com/
@halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
Karl @dr.supersat.phd KY0LO. Recovering hackademic. He/Him.
joern @jrn.bsky.social Still your mom’s favorite hacker!
Michal Melewski @carste1n.bsky.social Security Engineer @ Cloudflare,
ex-Google ISE,
I use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things.
My writing: https://carstein.github.io
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social Just someone that dabbles in threat research, malware analysis, RE, incident response, CTFs, and old school forensics.
Apologetic ginger.
professional rustacean 🦀🇺🇦🌻😷 @adhsec.bsky.social reverse engineering & vulnerability research, ex MWR Labs, generally bad at computers, memory safe(probably), OS internals/hypervisor/browser research and bug hunting r&d (❤️program/code analysis)🐞🔍 @adhsec on hellsite, they/them, enby, #AuDHD
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social Fuzzing; Vulnerability Research;
Deep Learning; Reverse Engineering
Training & Publications @ http://fuzzing.io
Hacking the planet since 1995
Undercurrents.io BOFH
I'll stop the world and melt with you
Jesse D'Aguanno @x30n.bsky.social Hacker, Vuln Research, 2x winner DEF CON CTF, Founder & CEO Blackwing Intelligence, not a CISSP
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
Peter Goodman @cxx.dev C++ developer specializing in source and binary program analysis and transformation.
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
Russ @dontlookbehindyou.bsky.social
Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Nazis need to be punched.
Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social SBOM Champion. Paranoid about supply chains of all kinds. Former full-service technocrat at CISA, NTIA. Lapsed{engineer, academic, author}. Now wandering the world doing acts of infosec-goodness, & occasionally getting paid for it. Poster of food pics.
SPAM @therealspam.bsky.social I am a meat popsicle • My words represent the thoughts and opinions of your employer • @SPAM@infosec.exchange
Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social Gray haired gray hat. Co-founder Veracode. Former L0pht security researcher. Builds tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in code at scale.
pronto @pronto.bsky.social 8647;
they/he/them/him/enby/pan/photog/neat/lists/DMV/
@jbphoto.me
Caroline @cxstephens.bsky.social
Morgan @synapticrewrite.bsky.social Hardware, prototyping, reverse engineering, firmware, lockpicking, makering, and various other hackings. @SynapticRewrite@hackers.town
Hackers on the Hill @hackersonthehill.org A semi-regular gathering for irregulars from the security research community to engage with Congressional staffers. Run by I Am The Cavalry, bridging the gap between the hacker and public policy communities since 2017.
Space Rogue @spacerog.bsky.social I fight for the user. | L0pht Heavy Industries - ATStake - Whacked Mac Archives - Hacker News Network - Cyber Squirrel 1 | Semgrep
Zubion @zubion.bsky.social
Ando @andoryuuta.bsky.social Just some rando who likes reverse engineering.
Github @ Andoryuuta
Scott Pack @scottpack.bsky.social Just some guy hoping to reduce risk, avoid liability, and not take things too seriously. Mostly just Security Engineering and Homebrewing chatter. Tha Ghàidhlig glè beagan agam ach tha mi ag ionnsachadh.
My thoughts, totes not employers. (he/him/e/esan)
jiska @naehrdine.bsky.social ɿɘɘniϱnɘ ɘƨɿɘvɘɿ
🎦 youtube.com/@jiskac
📝 naehrdine.blogspot.com
🐥 twitter.com/naehrdine
🎓 hpi.de/classen
📱 reversing.training
Aleks @fuzzyaleks.bsky.social Fuzzy as in logic
Tim McGuffin @tim.mcguff.in @NotMedic from that other place.
Adversarial Cartographer. DEFCON Staff & CFP Board. MS in DF. Fmr Fire/EMS. Red and Blue. Builder. Tinkerer. Chaotic Good.
Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social Retired video game programmer. 40+ years developing videogames and software.
Creator of games for the BBC Micro, Electron, NES, SNES, PC, XBox, PS3/4, Mobile, Vita, 3DS.
Former LEGO Developer
I also rescue and archive old game development disks, DM me!
Jordan Wiens @psifertex.bsky.social Binary Ninja dev, Cuber, EUC rider.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
1dark1 @1dark1.com WAKE UP AND FIGHT!
VOTE. THEM. OUT.
Graphic artist + logo designer for hackers
BIZ: hotironcreative.com/logos
SHOP: stickerthepla.net
ME: https://1dark1.com
she/her/Eldergoth
BLACK, TRANS, MINORITY, LGBTQIA++ LIVES MATTER!